Lecture Comments & Reflections
Design Development (weekly Challenge)
Revised Mood-board
– Interactive & Collaborative
– Space to create your own
– Tactile
– Share stories
Crazy 8 Design Sprint suggested by Christina on the ideas wall
Was struggling and slightly behind so wanted to generate ideas quickly to get them off my chest. Ideas I already had in my head were documented here but also new ideas crept up.
1- Pokemon Card (Card collecting) Digital with rare / more hidden cards you can get printed
2 – Interactive card wall – collecting cards with your phone to find out more – sharing your thoughts on live thread (in museum or virtually)
3 -Instagram your collection – Use the #SMGvirtual hashtag to share your collection from wherever you are, building a global view of the viewing of objects
4 – View on phone and share to screen (live exhibition which travels and documents) View objects of interest, share them to screen and connect with other stories.
5 – Digital Bookshelf of stories
6 – Tear and Connect (stamps)
7 – Vinyl record meets object (accessibility (brail and sound rather than physical nature of object) What stories are told through this medium.
8 – Sticker Collection. Sticker packs which contribute to a larger collection and sharing of stories.
Idea #1
Have this idea of creating a concept which allows the user to create their own object story collection using ‘digital cards’ Inspired by research around interactivity and nostalgia I wanted to explore a ‘Pokemon type’ idea around card collecting. This encouraging discovery and connection of stories.
The audience would be able to pull their discovered stories / objects (these would be the cards) into their own online collection (like an online card collecting book). From here the visitors can share, connect stories, create their own cards and even request to print ‘rare finds’
I envisage this to also feature live within the museum itself. This idea also considers the technology and adding an element of tactility to the solution – It feels over the last few years we have been forced onto technology but also we have looked back, researched and re visited elements in our lives. Look at the resurgence of vinyl and cassette tapes? Can an element of nostalgia be brought into this project to encourage collecting and discovery of stories.
Feedback from Dan (pastoral tutorial)
The idea doesn’t need to be world changing, it can be a simple and effective outcome.
The project can be revisited – you don’t need to resolve everything now.
How can social media be used for this project? – could be a beneficial addition
Look into graphic designers archives / personal collections
Creative Review – Monograph
Research and document my own collection and how I keep it (and ask why)
Museum of everything
Feedback from crit and ideas wall
Crit – John from the Science Museum really took on the idea of allowing visiting to create their own collections. He said ‘why only keep it to one museum’ open it up to all of them and allow a collection to span across all – stories crossing paths.
John made an interesting point on how the cards might work – Could the digital interface suggest cards to visitors within their collection based on what they have researched and collected.
Adding a personal connection to the collection – is there opportunity to add your own collection?
Ideas Wall
Gary mentioned the panini football sticker albums – this could be worth researching into for a potential ‘grid / format’ for the digital platform – could it follow a slot in feature?
Wes – Lenticular Cards – going to research further into this and see how it could potentially impact my project – I like the idea of the cards being more than just a flat card? There could be an element of interactivity to them?
Ingrid – Could the cards also be present within the museum? Can the visitors both pick them up physically and digitally? Could the solution also have a game to hunt down the cards within the museum (reference to Pokemon Go?)
Idea #2
Looking at how the power of social media and sharing can create a global collection beyond the archive. capture the object, document the object, submit and upload object, share with the global audience. Your finding then are shared on a archive map (live) which is constantly updating (overlay of objects and stories doesn’t matter as the location, angle, type of medium it’s captured with will document it)
View the tagged collection and save your own resources to your own ‘wall’
Idea #3
Vinyl + Sound
For a third idea I have been inspired by the more immersive end of trends and how different mediums need to be utilised more to engage, encourage and entice visitors to spaces. One of these is the use of sound in different forms.
Still looking at nostalgia and how certain trends and objects have come back around, for example vinyl. Can we create a SMG record? Can the objects and their stories be produced into sounds? Making it even more accessible? Could the sounds be from the objects themselves? could they be mashed together to make a track? What if the visitor could input there thoughts on what the object might sound like into a database which is shared openly with all.
We see objects and can see there tactile nature, marks, parts and movements but what about the sound? Does the sound of the object reveal a new story. Can it be accompanied by visuals to juxtapose and interest further?
So how about a vinyl record for the museum. Both digitally and physical. order your own record from the museum from your found collection.
Research
Yayoi Kusama’s Interactive Space – bring yourself, take a sticker and place. Collaboratively working together. Seeing what others have placed down and being influenced to make your decision.
What I love here is the notion of coming together to create an outcome. It’s down to everyone to put a sticker down to create the impact. You see what other’s have done and you then do your own. You might be influenced by others decisions or you might just go for it.
How can this project influence my ideas? Could this help move forward with the development of the ‘collectible card idea’? Adding elements which everyone can contribute to? A sharing board to share your favourite stories for example.
Weekly Critical Reflection
What went well
Continue to work on
Prompts for next week:
James Shaw 